Kary Mullis Quotes

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

And by the way, the United States is the biggest cause in global warming pollution. And we're doing the least about it. I find that personally embarrassing.

Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with curbing emissions but dangerously counterproductive.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

Every footstep we take, every action has a consequence. We breathe in weather, but we breathe out CO2. We're responsible for weather and for climate.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Climate change is real.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Climate change is crap.

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.